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Teresa Brás

Bolseira de Investigação Cientifica  

Mestre em Engenharia Química e Bioquímica                

FCT/UNL

 

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Education and Training

Master in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering by Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Caparica; Portugal (2013)

Graduation in Chemical Engineering by Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto; Porto; Portugal (2006)

Research and Professional Experience

Mar. 2011 - (Current) Scientific Researcher

CEBAL- Centro de Biotecnologia Agrícola e Agro-Alimentar do Alentejo
Project WaterTre&Val, Membrane technology for sustainable water treatment, recovery and valorization, CBL/ALENT-07-0224-FEDER-001756, funded by INALENTEJO.
BioEcos - Integrated Valorisation of Biomass (2011-2013), project funded by INALENTEJO; Ref. 705- Politica de Cidades - Redes Urbanas para a Competetividade e Inovação.
Project RefinOlea - valorização integrada de resíduos e subprodutos da extração de azeite, Ref. ALENT-09-0140-FEDER-000705, funded by INALENTEJO.

Mar. 2007 – Sep.2010

OPUS EDILE - Gestão de Projectos de Engenharia, S.A.
Responsible Engineer of water treatment technical department

Jan. 2006 – Jun. 2006 Scientific Researcher

Equilibrium Laboratory & REQUIMTE – Rede de Química e Tecnologia
Operational Program "Ciência e Inovação 2010" (POCI 2010), Development of analitical methodologies to quantify trichloroethylene, by GC-ECD, with SPME extraction, by Ministério da Ciência, in Environmental Chemistry - Equilibrium laboratory

Jan. 2004 – Jan. 2006 Scientific Researcher

GRAQ - Grupo de Reacção e Análises Químicas - Laboratório Associado REQUIMTE  

Current interests of research

Recovery of bioactive compounds from plants; Recovery of bioactive compounds using membrane separation processes; Use of nanofiltration to recovery bioethanol produced by olive bagasse fermentation; Detoxification of olive bagasse hydrolysate by diananofiltration.

Selected Publications

Papers in peer reviewed journals

Teresa Brás, Olinda Guerreiro, Maria. F. Duarte, Luísa A. Neves (2015), "Impact of extraction parameters and concentration by nanofiltration on the recovery of phenolic compounds from Cynara cardunculus var. altilis: assessment of antioxidant activity", Industrial Crops and Products, 67: 137–142.

Teresa Brás, Olinda Guerreiro, Maria. F. Duarte, Luísa A. Neves (2014), "Impact of extraction parameters and concentration by nanofiltration on the recovery of phenolic compounds from Cynara cardunculus var. altilis: assessment of antioxidant activity", Industrial Crops and Products (under revision)

Teresa Brás, Maria C. Fernandes , José Luís C. Santos, Luísa A. Neves (2013): Recovering bioethanol from olive bagasse fermentation by nanofiltration, Desalination and Water Treatment, 51:4333-4342, DOI:10.1080/19443994.2013.770216

Teresa Brás, Vera Guerra, Ivone Torrado, Florbela Carvalheiro, Luís C. Duarte, Luísa A. Neves, "Detoxification of hemicellulosic hydrolysates from extracted olive pomace by diananofiltration", Process Biochemistry Journal, 2013, DOI:10.1016/j.procbio.2013.09.017

Oral presentations

Bras, T.; Neves (2014), L. Tecnologia de Membranas para Separação de compostos de valor acrescentado presentes no bagaço de azeitona, Sessão de encerramento do projecto RefinOlea, 29 Abril, 31ª Ovibeja, Beja.

Morais, A.R.C; Duarte, L.C.; Lourenço, P.M.; Torrado, I;, Brás, T.; Neves, L.; Guerra, V.; Carvalheiro, F. (2013) Biotechnological advances in the xylitol production. Meeting of Green Metrics project FCT, 24 Abril, Cracóvia, Polónia

Pedro Lourenço, Carlos Martins, Florbela Carvalheiro, Ivone Torrado, Joana Telhada, José Duarte, Luís C. Duarte, Luísa Roseiro, Mafalda Viegas, Patrícia Moniz, Pedro Bernardo, Pedro C. Branco, Rafal Lukasik, Rita C. Morais, Susana Marques, Talita Silva-Fernandes, Vera Guerra, Filomena Pinto, Helena Lopes, Fátima Duarte, Luísa Neves, Maria Fernandes, Patrícia Ramos, Susana Sengo, Teresa Brás (2012), A VALORIZATION STRATEGY FOR BY-PRODUCTS OF OLIVE OIL EXTRACTION INDUSTRY, IAMAW 1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP, 5-8 June 2012, Santarem

Posters in conferences

Morais, R. C., Duarte, L.C., Lourenço, P.M., Torrado, I., Brás, T., Neves, L., Carvalheiro, F. (2013) Xylitol production using extracted olive pomace hemicelulosic hydrolysate 2-CIAB: 2nd IberoAmerican Congress on Biorefineries, Jaén, Spain, 10-12 April 2013;

Duarte L.C., Carvalheiro F., Torrado I., Guerra V., Morais A.R., Ferreira C., Roseiro L.B., Fernandes M.C., Neves L., Brás T., Lourenço P.M., Bogel-Lukasik R., Pinto F., et al, Xylitol production from extracted olive pomace - An Added-value Upgrading Option. Encontro Ibérico do Azeite, Abrantes, Portugal, 22-24 February 2013;

Fernandes, M.C., Brás, T.S., Lourenço, P.M.L., Duarte, L.C., Carvalheiro, F., Neves, L.A. et al., Bioethanol production from extracted olive pomace. Encontro Ibérico do Azeite, , Abrantes, Portugal, 22-24 February 2013;

Teresa Brás, Vera Guerra, Ivone Torrado, Florbela Carvalheiro, Luís C. Duarte, Luísa A. Neves, Diananofiltration studies to detoxify extracted olive pomace dilute acid hydrolysates, 1st Iberoamerican Congress on Biorefineries (1-CIAB), Mexico, 24-26 October 2012;

Bras, T. S., Fernandes, M. C., Neves, L. A., Recovery of bio-ethanol by nanofiltration, WasteEng 2012, Porto, 10-13 September 2012;

Fernandes, M. C., Bras, T. S., Lourenço, P. M. L., Duarte, L. C., Carvalheiroo, F., Bernardo, P., Marques, S., Neves, L. A., The effect of autohydrolysis pretreatment on the production of second generation bio-ethanol from extracted olive pomace, WasteEng 2012, Porto, 10-13 September 2012;

Bras, T., Neves, L., Detoxification of olive bagase acid-diluted hydrolysate by diananofiltration, IX CICECO Meeting, Aveiro, 2-3 May 2012;

Cristina Delerue-Matos, Aurora Silva, Teresa Silva, Elizabeth Vieira, António Fiúza, Trichloethylene quantification in polluted groundwater, EUROanalysisXIV, Antwerp, Belgium, 9-14 September 2007

Thesis

Teresa Brás (2006), Tratamento da raspa tripa da indústria dos curtumes. Que processo? (Compostagem, Digestão Anaeróbia ou Extracção de Gorduras), ISEP, IPP.